Arts and Culture Week
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Arts & Culture Week
September 19-26, 2008
Arts & Culture Week highlights the breadth of artistic and cultural resources available at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Starting September 19 and continuing through September 26, a diverse array of CU-Boulder programs will host a variety of free and low-cost events ranging from a gallery walk to a performance by virtuoso musical artists Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer.
The 2008 event kicks off on September 19 with the signature gallery walk, starting at 4:00pm at the Dennis Small Cultural Center in the University Memorial Center. Following at 5:00pm will be a social hour and open house at the CU Museum of Natural History. The series of receptions will conclude with an open house for the exhibit Traditions and Renditions: 50 Years of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the CU Heritage Center, on the third floor of the Old Main building. Following the gallery walk, at 7:30pm participants have the opportunity to attend either a free performance of the CU Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band at Macky Auditorium, or attend the first two one-act plays of the Theatre & Dance Season, 4:48 Psychosis and The Lottery at the University Theatre Loft.
Events celebrating indigenous cultures start on September 25 with a reception and gallery talk hosted in the lobby of Fiske Planetarium. The featured show, Under One Sky, brings together collaborative prints by associate professor Melanie Yazzie and Aboriginal, Maori, and Norfolk Island Indigenous Artists. Following on September 26, Paul Taylor and CU's Dr. John Stocke will explore the star knowledge of the Wardaman people, an Aboriginal tribe of northern Australia through traditions, songs and stories of Mr. Bill Yidumduma Harney. Throughout Arts & Culture Week, the exhibits Under One Sky and the CU Museum of Natural History’s Silavut: Inuit Voices in a Changing World will give attendees the opportunity to interact with indigenous art and perspectives.
Arts & Culture Week is presented through the cooperation of the Arts & Culture Roundtable of CU-Boulder, in recognition of the student fee funding support that is vital for cultural institutions on the Boulder campus.
